Word: correctible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first scene of “The Visitor,” Walter Vale struggles in his weekly piano lesson to bend his fingers into the correct position. As his teacher departs, she tells the aging economics professor, “Learning an instrument at your age is difficult, especially if you don’t possess a natural gift for it.” In case the viewer hasn’t grasped the depths of Vale’s despondency by the end of these first few shots, they will soon: in the opening scenes, he gazes forlornly...
...Psychology Department: Your behavior may be monitored while eating the burrito. East Asian Studies Chinese Food: Chinese food for everyone! DESSERT Women, Gender, and Sexuality Ice Cream: Our ice cream brings all the boys to the Yard / and they’re like / it’s more politically correct than yours. “Too Hot Not to Handle” Desserts with Earth and Planetary Sciences: Global warming may destroy our planet, but grab some of our cheesecake! Cookies, Milk and Music: And a bedtime story, if you’re good...
...soft skills they need to be good at their job as well as feel at home." Among the toughest parts is remedying wrong English. "When you have institutes claiming 'We teaches English,' you know the quality of students they produce," says Gopalakrishna, "We don't think we need to correct Indian-isms, but graduates must at least know proper business English...
...Having said that, what’s important at this point is that the Sox eventually made the correct decision and the Crimson will take the field at Fenway today. As Walsh put it, “I’m very excited. It doesn’t matter what happened or how it came about...
...find people even more in doubt of his ability to lead us out of the national crises we are in (an unending war, a faltering economy). Joe Klein stated that he doubted whether many Americans could get past their "third" impression of Obama. For this voter, he is correct, but it is not because of my lack of "experience" with Obama. It is because of something very important that my parents taught me when I was a child: your character or lack of it will be judged by the company you keep. The fact that Obama held someone as racist...